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Greetings, fellow Scions! I, Paradox, have the pleasure of sharing a spoiler with you today. However, after much contemplation, I’ve realized this card would go best with a little dose of our own real world and less so the world of Myria. So settle in, if you wish, for a story. A few years ago, I was finishing my junior year in college. I was studying philosophy, and like most people who volunteered to read dry books for all hours…

Last season, I didn’t qualify for the invitational. That was a miserable feeling for me—I’m very competitive, and last year, I qualified for every invitational after I started to play the game seriously. It was just one rough season, which is completely reasonable. That didn’t make it any easier to swallow. Going into season 2, I told myself I’d not let that happen again if I could afford it. I was determined to never made a bad deck decision…

Things have been changing here at team SPG! Over the past two seasons, we’ve gained several new members to strengthen our roster. Today, we’re here to formally introduce them. SooNo first played for SPG in the first season of 2018’s ETS team league as a last-minute addition to fill out the roster. His contributions in that team league earned him a spot on the official roster and since then he has had his own accomplishments including a first and…

This weekend is the “There Can Only Be One” event in Eternal, a mode where you bring your own deck but can only have one copy of each non-power card. These types of formats, often referred to as “Highlander” formats, are very popular in other card games and always a blast to play. Deckbuilding can be intimidating for many given the number of choices, but luckily, these formats tend to have trends that we’re sure to see emerge here in Eternal. Today…

Dead Reckoning is out and the metagame is wide open. Have the cards been weak as most initially thought? Or have many of them exceeded expectations? Is the metagame going to still have aggro? Is Primal good now? All of this and more will be discussed. Let’s start by evaluating some cards worth talking about. Hailstorm is the most important card in the set. Cards like this alter the format and set a big limit to what can safely…

I try to avoid making articles like this one. I’m not against criticism—just the opposite. It’s that they have a weird way of harboring a lot of unintended negativity. So let me then say that I offer this from a place of nothing but love for the game. There’s an issue I’ve tried to stay low-key about for a while now. “Eventually,” I thought, “they’re going to change things.” But I haven’t seen anything, so I can no longer remain…

Christmas came early with the unexpected release of The Dusk Road! Later this week, I will once again be releasing the Team SPG Top 10 for the set. In the meantime, I’ll give you some of the first decks I’ve built as well some impressions on the format. Let’s start off with what you probably expected me to show you first: a new Fire aggro deck. Stonescar Gunslingers 4 Oni Ronin (Set1 #13) 2 Sabotage (Set1 #252) 4 Stonescar Sneak (Set3…

Spoiler season is here again! The Dusk Road cards have started flowing in and the set is looking to be very exciting. While I, unfortunately, do not have a card to spoil today, I do have some fun and interesting decks for you to play for the next few weeks until the set drops. All of these decks are intended for ranked ladder. I cannot guarantee all of these decks are good, though they are all fun, with some of them being much…

The Worlds Wildcard tournament is over, wrapping up the ETS seasonal events for the year sans the World Championships. I did not win, meaning I will not be going to worlds—a fairly bitter feeling after having been so close for so many months. However, I did have a great 6-0 run in the Swiss portion of the tournament and made Top 8 with Skycrag, a tournament feat that hadn’t been done before. Before this tournament, I had been working on…

The Tale of Horus Traver (TToHT) is here! In addition to bringing a ton of exciting lore to the game, the adventure campaign has provided us with several new powerful cards. Let’s break down some of the strongest cards and look at how the metagame might start to change. In case it wasn’t apparent, there will be card spoilers (but no story spoilers.) Tavrod, Auric Broker Without a doubt, Tavrod is the best card from TToHT and is now one…